1. No locking gas tank cap
2. Cool box in glove compartment doesn't work
3. Powered mirrors had ground in electrical wiring, A/S folks still having problems tracing it
4. Car security system did not work and still has issues
5. Worst gas mileage - even against an SUV or Truck
6. Poor passenger spacing in backseat
7. Audio entertainment system is crap and does a disservice to Bose
8. The automatic transmission wore out after 1000 miles - crappy engineering
9. The sports leather chair material started peeling apart at the seams (this took a lawyer to convince the dealership to fix immediately at no cost)
10. It took a legal settlement and many months to get money back after taking the dealership to court over obvious acts of check and sales fraud (the nerve of salespeople water washing checks)
1. The 2008 is just 2WD
2. The paint quality of a SAAB is poor after taking it in the same year to get it fixed by a professional body shop for more $
3. The warranty info on the Saab is not as clear or good as it might sound, as I found out with numerous other mechanical issues I had to shovel out more $ for
Based on my experience, I can't take this review seriously.
The writer complains of poor gas mileage and that the car is 2WD. Didn't you know that it was a front wheel drive vehicle when you bought it? As far as the gas mileage goes - my 2003 Saab 9-3 gets 28-30mpg on the highway - which I feel is very, very good.
As far as never buying a Saab - I would buy another one in a minute - but with GM's financial problems, I might not be able to in a few years.
I'll keep the one I have now for as long as I can, and hope than Saab survives the GM financial crisis.
No locking gas cap? The car has central locking. The flap is locked - not the cap!
Gas mileage worse than an SUV? Which SUV are you talking about, a Japanese 4 cylinder turbodiesel? Exactly what mileage figures are you getting? Even with a very, very poorly tuned engine, you'd be hard pressed to do worse than 5 km/L in any SAAB.
Only front wheel drive? Uh, aren't almost all SAABs?
This person sounds like he's had either the odd lemon or a bad dealer experience, and is really nitpicking the car. Or the dealer's retaliating for how he's treating them.
I agree with the prior two comments. I cannot take this person's review seriously.
It sounds like this person got burned by the dealer and the service department since he claims the service dept cannot locate the wiring for the power mirrors. How can they not locate the wiring? Also what he meant by gas cap was the fuel door leading to the gas cap. I also found it odd that a car of this price did not have a button to open the gas door as most cars have these days. For some reason Saab opted to go the traditional way of just opening it manually.
They don't need a "button" to open the fuel door.
When the vehicle is locked, the fuel door is locked also.
When the vehicle is unlocked the fuel door is unlocked too.
Do you really need for it to pop open a little bit for you too?
Note: A Comments RSS Feed is available. New comments appear in the Members Area before the main site